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Petrofac - Acquisition broadens service range

September 2008

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  • Epic Code:
  • PFC
  • Price:
  • 544p
Oil services firm Petrofac has announced the acquisition of Eclipse Petroleum Technology, a specialist production engineering company for an initial £7m, rising to a maximum of £16m depending on future profitability. Founded in 1999, Eclipse provides oilfield services such as field development, production modelling and optimisation. It also provides risk management throughout the well's life cycle. Earlier Petrofac cheered investors with news that it has won an extension to an existing lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction contract to build a fifth gas processing facility in the Western desert area of Egypt. The shares remain well ahead of our original main recommendation pri ...

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